Modern Hollywood has long-since stopped making films for the actual audience. Instead, under the erroneous banner of making stuff for 'MODERN AUDIENCES', Hollywood simply makes what it wants to see, and it keeps doing it over and over without learning the lesson that the real audience hates it.
That’s not it black rock CEO claims he gave enough money and power to force what the fans doesn’t want down all our throats Larry Fink that’s the bastard who’s behind it all including video games every media that wretched bastard have is hand in
Modern audiences who never existed for said property in the first place. Good examples of the worst "modern audience" things are Sexually Transmitted Discovery, The Rings of Power, and The Velma Project without Scooby-Doo. Anyone else could easily make a Scooby-Doo series without Scooby-Doo that is any better and any more entertaining than Velma Kaling!
Woke people currently running Hollywood (and all other entertainment industries that went woke in recent years) live in a bubble of constant validation where no opposing views are allowed. I'm not talking out of my ass, there was this recent report by an anonymous insider at Disney who said not only are you not allowed to work with them if you hold any sort of "conservative" views and opinions, but other employees are encouraged to snitch on their coworkers if they're hiding said views and opinions, and even punished if they knew and didn't say anything. What I'm getting at is, they've created an entire environment where they don't have to deal with the harsh reality that most people disagree with them and don't care about their views on how entertainment should be made. Nobody there is allowed to express anything that doesn't align with "progressive" views (and even then, only their particular brand of progressivism, that's often pretty bigoted and backwards).
Here's the thing about deconstructing shows and movies for 'modern audiences'; they age like cottage cheese on a radiator. Example, the recent modern Sherlock Holmes adaptation, 'Sherlock,' a vaccuous, hyper-caffeinated borefest that got worse the more the showrunners stroked themselves to completion over how fantastically clever it was. Compare it to the Eighties ITV version starring Jeremy Brett, pure class in every frame and arguably the definitive iteration, still surviving nearly forty years after its screening. Another example, the BBC's aborted attempt at a 'modern period' Robin Hood series featuring a Cockney Robin Hood, a Girlboss Marian and, of course, a black Friar Tuck, an absolute dumpster fire that quickly ground to a halt and is barely remembered today. Again, compare to the Eighties ITV series 'Robin of Sherwood,' the first show to attempt a faithful and straight adaptation of the myth mixed with elements of old English mythology to give it an 'Excalibur' vibe, and you have a story of a legend that is still followed and watched in reruns today. The ambition shouldn't be to make an adaptation of something 'modern.' That is vanity projecting politics and personality into stories in which it never belonged. The aim should be to tell a story that is timeless.
Due to ideology I switched to asians movies since 2010 but since they started collaborating with Netflix and Amazon the wokeness started being more and more prevalent.
"Have you noticed since the writer's strike, there has been no Late Night Talk shows. No, neither have I." Good point, they might come back to an audience that has largely moved on. I've been having this thought recently about how so many industries (gaming, finance, film are the main ones I'm thinking about right now) have sold out or entirely disregard their consumers and the question was why. I think now it's largely due to ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) that we've had for around 2 decades. The desire for obscene growth and access to free money has given these companies' executives and managers, who would otherwise be entirely unqualified for their roles, a position of authority. And now that we are possibly entering a period of a higher cost of money... "when the tide rolls out, you get to see who was swimming naked." as Buffett would put it.
@@JohnFourtyTwo Me neither, I prefer to be in bed getting a nights sleep then watching some muppet with an audience of clapping seals, while talking to some actor or actress or 'celebrity' plugging something.
I love watching old films and laughing when there are politically incorrect moments. You have to turn to the family and say, "Ha, they would never allow that today!"
By old films you mean ones 4-7 years old which is the insane thing. We're not just talking about decades past. Also why I don't think this is a case of "old man yelling at youth." This change was abrupt and IMMEDIATELY noticed. People were angry about it the year it happened. South Park even did an episode calling it out. This isn't some nostalgia thing.
Indeed. Went back and watched the 'Strangers With Candy' series awhile back. I miss hilariously un-PC stuff like that. What's even more surprising are some of the industry names you can see associated with those un-PC comedies who became big parts of the cult later on. When their group sphincter tightening cut off the last of their vestigial comedic talent.
all the studies on diversity the government uses were actual diversity rather than skin colour. They took that info and smashed the circle intro the square hole to make it about wokeness. The studies had plumbers and engineers and other professionals solving problems and that type of thing. There are no studies that are reliable that show diversity based on skin colour and sexual preferences works well or at all.
So many books to read, games to play and just going outside. I thank Hollywood for sacrificing itself to remind me of other things to do to entertain myself.
So many classic television shows I wasn't interested in when I was a kid. Movies I shrugged at, but never watched - until now. VERY good writing! Some GREAT classic films! You know, OLD Hollywood.
You know everything about Hollywood you need to know when you realize that a retired bloke with a camera and a greenscreen can produce more entertaining content then an entire Hollyweird studio. Love from Germany, keep it up, mate!
Good, the rest of the world can finally be free and decenter from the West. China is the new Superpower and Asian cinema is making rounds in Africa@@CallMeChato
With COVID, businesses realized that it wasn't necessary to rent office space, people could work from home. It's been realized, with the writers's strike, that some shows, talk shows, in particular, aren't necessary/truly wanted...quite telling.🤔
The fact that The Office and Friends are consistently some of the most streamed shows should be a source of embarrassment to these people. How many real hits have there been in the age of streaming - anything other than Stranger Things?
@@CallMeChatono shit, because intelligent people existed in the past. It's a lot harder when you're not allowed to learn what nuance actually is. I think that's the biggest freaking atrocity of the North American if not straight up Western education systems. Then again, conspiratorially, that may very well be by design.
@@ImpetuouslyInsane Maybe, but I think it's more like modern teachers are bad at teaching. They got into that profession because no one else would have them. You know, because they suck at everything else. So, when a society has a bunch of failures that want to power trip over people that can't defend themselves, you get the American education system where the goal isn't to educate, but to indoctrinate into debt slaves. The most pernicious version of bait and switch I've ever seen.
Some points: 1. When allowed, Canadians are perfectly capable of making TV and movie entertainment that is just as good (or bad) as that of any other nation. 2. What is the perfect series for streaming? In my opinion it's _Band of Brothers._ Now, maybe that's not "diverse" enough, but it makes a great _example_ of how to do it _right._ There's no bait-and-switch, naming itself after one character and then never focusing on him or her. There's no saving all the exciting action for the last episode. There's no cliff-hanger ending. It has a through-story, but it's not a soap opera. The first few original _Prime Suspect_ series would have been great for streaming, also. 3. Stop replacing red-haired white women with black women constantly and unnecessarily. 4. Each and every late-night talk show has become an obvious participant in propaganda dissemination for the Democratic Party. All their commentary and editorializing on politics are in such lockstep with Democratic Party talking points that I'm pretty sure they all signed the same contract. There is *_NO_* deviation among *_ANY_* of them and that's highly suspicious to me. Okay, I'm done prating now.
take the red haired complaint up with the tiny-hat tribe that runs your entertainment mediums. Who do you think is making that decision? Literally all them, yet they scream a made up racially charged word about calling em out, sounds like they are children that never grew up from slave times even though they are still modern slaves like all of us.
"4. Each and every late-night talk show has become an obvious participant in propaganda dissemination for the Democratic Party. All their commentary and editorializing on politics are in such lockstep with Democratic Party talking points that I'm pretty sure they all signed the same contract. There is NO deviation among ANY of them and that's highly suspicious to me." I mean, Wikileaks and the JournoList (J-List) leaks directly confirmed that the DNC leadership and Democrat politicians' campaign teams email the staff of talk shows and journalists to coordinate on what talking points to put out each day. It's not even theoretical.
My conspiracy theory: All the executives saw these strikes as the perfect way to purge the industry of the people costing them money. Simply wait them out. Do not negotiate until they all have to quit. And once nobody's left, hire back the ones that make you money. That way you avoid all of the lawsuits and screaming and people on TV claiming you're firing them because of (insert political reason here); they are just not hired back.
It's an interesting theory, but the CEOs are a big part of the activist problem. They may be cutting some troublemakers, but the rot is still there and spreading.
It's a Holly-caust! Good riddance. "Nothing of value was lost in the fire", as the old saying goes. Seriously, if "Barbenheimer" is the best we can do, it's time to close up shop.
Happy to watch your channel from time to time. Used to work as a senior engineer in one of the biggest companies in the US, but got tired of the way DEI was used to skip unqualified candidates into critical positions. Was a story my friends in the automotive industry had already been pointing out much earlier, an industry that used to indicate the US economy quite well... until it did not.
@@Nyet-Zdyes Was a senior engineer at Intel. They just were given a bunch of contracts from the chips act. Big mistake - a corp will abide by the letter of the contract I assume, but this was the company that emptied out innovative VLSI firms in the US and then moved as much as possible overseas. Intel has a division entierly focused on what to do with all the excess money they made in the 80s & 90s. No surprise Obama visited Jones Farm site in Oregon to discuss how semiconductors would be the new version of the automotive industry indicator. Then intel moved operations to vietnam, mexico, costa rica, china even. [edit: sorry to ruin the hope for the future, but the DNC are the bad guys. Easy conclusion to anyone that does not have blinders.]
@@sorde21 Oh, I agree that the modern DNC are definitely the bad guys. I also expect the to "game the system" to their personal benefit... nothing new there. The bigger the government gets, the more opportunities to game the system. As for ruining any hope that I might have for the future... rest assured... that hope has LONG been gone. I'm cynical because I am also realistic.
The thing that put Johnny Carson ahead of the competition was two things: the couch, and the hog-calling competition. A good chunk of the memorable moments from the Carson show were the guests interaction with each other, and they weren't all Hollywood elites.
When I heard about the crazy Oscar checklist, I found myself wondering-if I were a filmmaker-- if I'd just shrug off the idea of winning an Oscar and focus on making a good and profitable movie instead. Oscar awards shows have rating sinking faster than the Titanic. Even an Oscar nomination doesn't mean diddly in my book anymore.
As a non-involved Trump supporter (no donations, no votes), I can appreciate the ability to loathe the man but not go nuts about hating him or his supporters. More importantly, thanks for the great entertainment! Too bad we don't have many of the real movie stars left, those who understand the fundamental nature of their business. Ego seems to have superseded talent, and we are poorer for it.
I don't believe that modern Hollywood understands one very important fact. Entertainment, is a luxury, not a necessity. Also there is the matter of relateability. I, a disabled veteran, living on $1,300 a month is suppose to feel bad for some crappy writer making more in a week than I do in a year!! The hell with the writers and the actors. Let them strike, and let them have to skip a few meals to have enough money for gas to go to a medical appointment.
"I struggle so everyone else should!" has always been a bullshit argument. Them having better contracts does not take money away from your pension. Not that I am particularly empathetic towards them, but it doesn't concern me, so it shouldn't bother me.,
Yes, they make that in a week, but then they're jobless for 3 or more months. This strike isn't about the people at the top. 80% don't meet the standard to get health coverage thru the union.
Hollywood has told me [and so many millions of other people] that it loathes me. It tells me that I've been wrong, and that I am wrong for believing what I believe. It tells me that I'm wrong for not giving them my money for having them yell at me that I'm in the wrong. Hollywood has told me that I should not exist, except as their ally, willing to scrape and bow before them and say 'Thank you. May I have another?' when they kick me in the groin. Hollywood can burn to hell for all I care.
If late-night talk shows are not being broadcasted, then I say let the strike last forever. A day without Late Nith Talks Shows is like a breath of clean fresh air.
Some of the boozy Carson shows you spoke of were unscripted mayhem. When professional ring master Johnny loses control of his guests, you know it’s gone off the rails. Great stuff to look back on.
Well said! This is currently my favorite Chato video. Disney has already cancelled itself. As Disney goes, so goes Hollywood. This is what happens when you let Darla take control of the "He-Man Women Haters Club".
That good old boys club of the old Tonight show that you described could be that way because each of those names you rattled off were extremely entertaining.
The death of Hollywood is a suicide, The Writers can stay on strike for all I care. We have 100 years of superior movies and television to fall back on, not to mention every other form of entertainment and art!
@@Lonovavir That's implied, I'm not one of those folks who doesn't like to read subtitles. Even the foreign film fare has gone downhill a bit let's be honest...
@@OldMan_PJ Amen to that. Dune 1980 was not true because the director could not see people doing Martial Arts on the sand. The Sci-fi two part series was closer to the Book and the 2023 was also. It a much better version of the 1980. The 1980 version is a good classic version.
@@charlesratcliff2016 Sanford and Son has an almost all black cast, maybe one white. But it was one of the funniest comedies. Married With Children was mostly white and the black members were as funny as Al. It's not color, it's talent. Of course, I loved the fat women who tried to buy shoes from Al.
I remember when I was a lot younger listening to Bill Hicks lambast Talk Shows and Hollywood culture, due to how devoid they were of any artist integrity. His Arizona Bay jokes were fantastic, and true. And it has only got worse. He was ahead of his time.
You sir are brilliant! I laughed out loud more times in this video than all your others combined (save for Mister Canoehead of course). The machine that goes "bing" - I'm still laughing!
The Witcher books are literally monster of the week short stories, if they followed the book the story would introduce you to the world and naturally lead to Ciri's story and it would have been insanely good.
We like the new platforms -that the audience/fans can directly interact with the hosts of the shows. I’d take Chato, Nerdrotic, EVS, Critical Drinker, Salty Cracker, ThatUmbrellaGuy, and Doomcock ANY day, over any “late night comedy” shows today. Unless we can reanimate Johnny Carson!🙏🤞😎
Yes, I find You Tube far more entertaining then TV, in fact besides the channels mentioned I can spend a whole evening watching something as mundane as a person with a go pro on their helmet skiing down different runs.
Thanks once again Chato. As the proud owner of 4K+ Blu-rays of Films, Shows, Docs, Anime, Opera/Musicals and a host of other wonderful entertainment I can honestly say, that were Hollyweird in this current era to plummet into the depths of the PACIFIC, via the next "big one", only the loss of life would provoke a tear from me (I don't wish death on anyone, ever). The entertainment map has shifted, significantly. Movies in Cinemas, TV shows each scheduled week. These are for the most part items of a bygone era that is actually, only paid attention to by the very same demographic they are trying to chase away, in order to attract their...heh, heh, heh, NEW audience. Yeah well, I'm gone, my family is gone and a multitude of my friends are gone. Good luck with that. :)
Oh, and Sky TV here in the UK has not renewed their exclusive contract with The Oscars to stream the award show over their ratings failure. Oh, how that tickled me.
I watched a bit of Young Sheldon with my Mom. I am not a fan of the show or the Big Bang Theory. But I can sit and watch an episode or two and am mildly entertained. The formulaic sitcom is a lost gem. You just put them on and enjoy. There is no heaviness, just light hearted, simple enjoyment. There has always been message driven entertainment, but it was found in indie productions. Mostly because the market for it smaller. But general entertainment says nothing and that is the point.
If old Hollywood had a problem, it was lack of accountability. But since people really don't want to be accountable, accountability becomes like a wet bar of soap, it keeps trying to slip out of your grasp. So if you push for accountability AND inclusivity, obviously Hollywood will try to push inclusivity as the primary concern.
I've never much cared for the hollywood types, but it must be terrible to have spent decades working for an industry only to watch it get mismanaged into oblivion.
Propmaker been working since 95. Have felt like I’ve been trapped on a bus driven by crazy people heading for a cliff for a while now. I just want to make cool stuff.
I follow music more than movies. One of the major artists that I care about made this observation: It used to be that it was a huge win if a music artist got on a late-night show like Johnny Carson or David Letterman. Right now if a music artist gets on any of the late night shows, it makes *absolutely* no difference to their sales, radio play, or even plays on Spotify. None. Whoever it is that watches late-night shows these days, apparently they have no interest in new music.
I wouldn't go that far. I'd say the profession is necessary, but many of those striking haven't been doing very good work in it. When you get a good group together in the decision making process, you get great content. When you get people who just want to tick boxes and brag to the public about how woke they are, then blame the fans for not liking what they made, you get shows like Rings of Power.
@@evanflynn4680 Read about the Luddites in early 19th Century Britain, and see the comparison with the introduction of tech into a once manual trade, i.e. then cropping machines, and today AI into the script writing process. aka history repeating itself.
Also a 'profession' that is SUPPOSED to depend on TALENT! It's not like we're talking about factory workers who could be easily replaced by nearly ANY SCAB off the street who's willing to work for 50 cents less an hour... If a WRITER is 'successful' then wouldn't they always be IN DEMAND?
I have no sympathy for the Leftists in Hollyweird. But I'm sure there are a vast number of people working in showbiz that don't agree with the message, But just keep their mouths shut and do what they're told out of self preservation. Also, a lot of people DON'T make tons of money. It's the stars that get all the attention and they ARE rich. Plus the whole AI issue. Everyone should fear AI. Not because they are going to turn into deadly robots. But because they are going to make most people irrelevant.
Workers are essential to every industry. While I have no sympathy for the executives, I do sympathize with people who are working in a dying industry. I work in a dying industry myself. I am still rooting for their failure though. Hollywood deserves to fail as bad as Bud light did.
One of the root issues is, the main script writing software, Final Draft, has had a feature for a while now that allows you to give your characters the various check box requirements and then it performs metrics on your script to essentially give it a DEI score. Basically, your script can be DOA when you send it in because of a low or non existent set of social metrics.
The most popular late night talk show even before the strike is "Gutfeld!". It's still on, sometimes hilarious, sometimes not, with great co-hosts (love me some Kat Timpf). The humor is 100% anti-woke, and sometimes it even offends me, but overall it's pretty funny and informative.
Some people: "We're going to the theater to see Barbie!" Other people: "We're going to the theater to see Oppenheimer." Me: "I'm sitting at home in my underwear in the dark watching Death Wish 3 on VHS."
Does anyone else remember the days when Hollywood just entertained us and didn't tell us how to think, feel, eat or anything else they have come into their miniscule minds?....ah well perhaps it was all just a fever dream.
There'd often be some message there but it generally needed to make sure we kept watching, so it tended to hide it in characters and story. Unless it was the moral sledgehammer at the end of He-Man.
No, there has always been subtle and not so subtle messaging. Product placements. CIA actively involved in the decision of certain films, this is historical fact. The difference is there was a good enough mix you didn't notice it as much
This is because the young writers BELIEVE that Hollywood is inevitable. It's not. No audience is going to hang around if you insult them. If those slighted people can find, "entertainment," elsewhere....they will go there.
No... they started with the first 3 letters... f... e... m... and end in "-ists". If you want, you can stick that word for the place where 2 roads meet, in front of it.
Hollywood has turned into "Monty Python's Flying Circus" As soon as some comedy troupe somewhere realizes this, they'll have what comes after "the Office"
I like series that are one continuing long movie, when it works for that series. It doesn't for everything. I do get what you're saying about serialization though. I think that for a lot of series, the concept of "let's having overarching plots, but then do episodes of the week" is the sweet spot, in particular if a show is clever enough to swap in and out of those styles as needed. I still think Deep Space 9 is an underlooked gem when it comes to serialization / episodic ratio, it nailed it.
It's a tried-and-true method that WORKS, at least when it's done moderately right. Another thing that they are forgetting or ignoring... is having characters that people actually like... that they WANT to "invite into their homes" and spend time with. A 3rd thing... "Hollywood people" are not doing themselves any favors by running their mouths off and insulting people. In doing so, they turn themselves into someone we don't want in our homes... don't want to spend time with.
I have to say I think there's an oversight in the late night / talk show point, which is that of the lockdowns/mandates etc. When so many of those hosts were pushing ONE thing and in such a domineering and condescending way. I truly believe it turned a lot of people off - who maybe did just want a bit of goofy talk and were quite happy with the TDS (maybe...), but to be told they were irrelevant in the face of overwhelming celebrity, while at risk of - or actually - losing jobs, family, contacts, livelihoods, communities, friendships and have late night shows (literally) make a song and dance about how great THEY were, I think created an unbridgeable divide for many in relation to those shows and potentially Hollywoke/weird/why as a whole.
Diversity is one of the words they're trying to redefine, along with others such as: woman racism fascism violence gender accountability queer equality
Have to be honest here: death of Hollywood is the best news that could ever be delivered to other centres of filmmaking. For instance, first continuous narrative feature film was made in my country, Australia, which had a very healthy film industry. Hollywood, of course, obliterated it. Wouldn't it be fantastic if commercial filmmaking - in terms of what gets greenly - devolves back across to all regions in the world.
You spoke my mind. There was never a moment from on high when God declared Los Angeles, California, to be hot centre of the cinematic Universe for all time.
@@videowilliams Hallelujah to that. Hollywood dominated thanks to its unbeatable economies of scale in the early 20th C, but today that's called the internet, virtual production, and whatever AI is going to provide in background action and sets. If the cycle turns as it did in the New Hollywood in the Seventies when story trumped spectacle, I think there's than odds-on chance of a new renaissance. The death of the multiplex and the rise of the 'event' cinema for film-lovers will be part of this.
A "Mystery Men" style movie called "SJW: The Awakening" would be awesome. The twist would be at the point, at the end of the second act of course, when one of them realizes/wakes up to the fact that they are actually the supervillains who are destroying what they say they are trying to protect. Perhaps this would come while the SWJ character, lets call them _The Shoveller,_ is hitting a special needs child over the head with his shovel. I know it's extremely derivative, but... Well anyway. Great video.
Hollywood is tearing itself apart & we're standing back in silence. Like Sun Tzu said, "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." We're more than happy to watch things which weren't released before our current age of enlightenment.
@@quietus13 Yeah, I think it is wrongly attributed to Sun Tzu, but here is a good one from him: "If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by."
Hollywood forgot people need to entertain, to be fun, amusing. The theme can't be a subtitute to the story. And entertainment shows were supposed to be fun, not safe or informative. It's like when a teacher want the kids to participate in a game that is fun and educational. Those never were fun,
Ive just had a wonderful idea for a network/streaming series...! Das Love Boat, in which a diverse group of U-.boat sailors sink a new cruise ship/international navy ship full of special guest stars per episode!..'Liebe, exciting and new, Come aboard, they're torpeding you!'
"Das Love Boat, soon will be sinking another voyage, Das Love Boat depth charges they will do their best to avoid. Untergang, their intention and hope for a new sieg-hiel..."
It's fair to say that 'network shows' had become terribly formulaic (and had always wrestled against the strictures of what could be shown on-screen, lest any PTA members whip out their flaming pitchforks), so being able to tell a story at the length it *needed* to be rather than the length it *had* to be, and in fewer episodes (far less filler), and without much in the way of content restrictions, streaming really did shake things up for the better ... ... for a while. Streaming indulged itself on its own methods for too long and became lazy, too often sliding out any old junk written however the hell they wished and damn the baffling consequences (e.g. The Witcher) having forgotten the necessary structure and discipline that the traditionally-written network shows had in spades. There has to be a combination of the two, ultimately. Network TV needs to get over itself already and realise that the human body and the F-bomb aren't the end of civilisation, while Streaming TV needs to inject the rigour of structure, logic, clarity of characterisation, and solid storytelling and dispense with the segregationist, condescending, pandering checkboxing on both sides of the screen to focus on talent and storytelling with true breadth and variety, bringing in fresh new voices of all kinds from *outside* the Los Angeles area code. /rant :)
I think streaming services could learn a thing or two from the networks that while diminishing, are still making a profit, thanks in part to 22 episode seasons that keep people in the habit of tuning in. It also makes the production cost per episode a lot lower because they can reuse assets and build a crew that becomes a well-oiled machine from working full time on the show.
It's interesting that you mention how conservative-aligned actors, writers, producers, etc, are being forced out of Hollywood. I was in a conversation with a fellow left-leaning Canadian who was a lot more ideologically inclined than I, and who said they were: "Happy so many racists in Hollywood were being shown the door". I pondered for a moment and then asked: "You know, I can't think of a single racist who wasn't right-leaning, can you?" They almost immediately said: "Well, that's just because those on the political right trend in that direction." I replied: "Hmm, but I can't think of one openly right-wing person in Hollywood who hasn't been called racist and cancelled. Surely if it was just a natural trend there would be some good apples among the bunch, right?" I don't know if it got this person thinking, but perhaps some of the other people listening to the conversation began to realize that this was a vindictive political purge disguising itself as a morally righteous crusade to make Hollywood more "inclusive and safe". At the time, we also didn't have examples of left-leaning celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg commenting on the Holocaust, and their career surviving with no repercussions.
@@johnpglackin345 I moved from WashDC to rural Tennessee and have yet to hear anything even slightly racist here In Republican-for-Sixty Years Eastern Tenn. But in DC, it was a constant thing.
Its getting very exhausting watching the things I love be taken over or co-opted by people who could give a shit about them and turning them into something unrecognizable. Its like finding out your mother has been a man your whole life, its really fucking disturbing.
It's the classic American, 'Throw out the good with the bad". Honestly, woke culture, in terms of what it has sadly evolved into, feel more like the liberal equivalent of 50's Eisenhower conservatism, except for which side is now blacklisting the people it doesn't like.
Watching TV is a pastime I gave up years ago. It's a waste of time. I do like movies though. I've gone to see two this year in the theaters. That's all that seemed worthy of my time. Cheers!
watched a fun movie last night about a Racehorse in Wales, the horse got injured and then got better and won. It was set in Wales , they had a sing at the end. It was fun and entertaining and that was it. No stupid middle class girl politics, no Americans, no idiotic American politics, no digital editing sludge. There was some fun motion graphics at the end and that was about it.
…and the world sat back in satisfaction and laughed.
Burn Hollywood, burn.
Wanna ruin our childhood and beloved entertainment?
We'll ruin their careers
Maybe Bollywood will take their place? Nah.
@jeesmith99 - laughed..... with gusto.
Some foreigner who respects their audience will see an opportunity....
Modern Hollywood has long-since stopped making films for the actual audience. Instead, under the erroneous banner of making stuff for 'MODERN AUDIENCES', Hollywood simply makes what it wants to see, and it keeps doing it over and over without learning the lesson that the real audience hates it.
That’s not it black rock CEO claims he gave enough money and power to force what the fans doesn’t want down all our throats Larry Fink that’s the bastard who’s behind it all including video games every media that wretched bastard have is hand in
the modern audience is tent pole writers and execs, certainly not aimed at actual audiences. The tone really started changing by around 2015.
Modern audiences who never existed for said property in the first place. Good examples of the worst "modern audience" things are Sexually Transmitted Discovery, The Rings of Power, and The Velma Project without Scooby-Doo. Anyone else could easily make a Scooby-Doo series without Scooby-Doo that is any better and any more entertaining than Velma Kaling!
Woke people currently running Hollywood (and all other entertainment industries that went woke in recent years) live in a bubble of constant validation where no opposing views are allowed. I'm not talking out of my ass, there was this recent report by an anonymous insider at Disney who said not only are you not allowed to work with them if you hold any sort of "conservative" views and opinions, but other employees are encouraged to snitch on their coworkers if they're hiding said views and opinions, and even punished if they knew and didn't say anything.
What I'm getting at is, they've created an entire environment where they don't have to deal with the harsh reality that most people disagree with them and don't care about their views on how entertainment should be made. Nobody there is allowed to express anything that doesn't align with "progressive" views (and even then, only their particular brand of progressivism, that's often pretty bigoted and backwards).
Here's the thing about deconstructing shows and movies for 'modern audiences'; they age like cottage cheese on a radiator. Example, the recent modern Sherlock Holmes adaptation, 'Sherlock,' a vaccuous, hyper-caffeinated borefest that got worse the more the showrunners stroked themselves to completion over how fantastically clever it was. Compare it to the Eighties ITV version starring Jeremy Brett, pure class in every frame and arguably the definitive iteration, still surviving nearly forty years after its screening. Another example, the BBC's aborted attempt at a 'modern period' Robin Hood series featuring a Cockney Robin Hood, a Girlboss Marian and, of course, a black Friar Tuck, an absolute dumpster fire that quickly ground to a halt and is barely remembered today. Again, compare to the Eighties ITV series 'Robin of Sherwood,' the first show to attempt a faithful and straight adaptation of the myth mixed with elements of old English mythology to give it an 'Excalibur' vibe, and you have a story of a legend that is still followed and watched in reruns today. The ambition shouldn't be to make an adaptation of something 'modern.' That is vanity projecting politics and personality into stories in which it never belonged. The aim should be to tell a story that is timeless.
"Hollywood is NUKING itself!"
And I for one am enjoying it immensely.
Best entertainment from Them in a long time.
Due to ideology I switched to asians movies since 2010 but since they started collaborating with Netflix and Amazon the wokeness started being more and more prevalent.
@@simonbrehm358 It's a Cult
"Have you noticed since the writer's strike, there has been no Late Night Talk shows. No, neither have I." Good point, they might come back to an audience that has largely moved on.
I've been having this thought recently about how so many industries (gaming, finance, film are the main ones I'm thinking about right now) have sold out or entirely disregard their consumers and the question was why. I think now it's largely due to ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) that we've had for around 2 decades. The desire for obscene growth and access to free money has given these companies' executives and managers, who would otherwise be entirely unqualified for their roles, a position of authority. And now that we are possibly entering a period of a higher cost of money... "when the tide rolls out, you get to see who was swimming naked." as Buffett would put it.
Im not sure what that all that means but I like the Buffet quote
I work in Sales for a solar company. Pretty idealistic. But one can perceive the exact same in our C-level.
It is mind-blowing.
I haven’t watched late night tv in years, so I have no idea what talk shows are on right now.
@@JohnFourtyTwo Me neither, I prefer to be in bed getting a nights sleep then watching some muppet with an audience of clapping seals, while talking to some actor or actress or 'celebrity' plugging something.
@@Puzzoozoo Exactly, agreed 💯👍
I love watching old films and laughing when there are politically incorrect moments. You have to turn to the family and say, "Ha, they would never allow that today!"
By old films you mean ones 4-7 years old which is the insane thing. We're not just talking about decades past.
Also why I don't think this is a case of "old man yelling at youth." This change was abrupt and IMMEDIATELY noticed. People were angry about it the year it happened. South Park even did an episode calling it out. This isn't some nostalgia thing.
Indeed. Went back and watched the 'Strangers With Candy' series awhile back. I miss hilariously un-PC stuff like that.
What's even more surprising are some of the industry names you can see associated with those un-PC comedies who became big parts of the cult later on. When their group sphincter tightening cut off the last of their vestigial comedic talent.
@@NefariousKoel Yeah Comedy Central was fire 20 years ago.
@@TheRosswisenow it's just burning. Like a dumpster fire. Just outside of the St Louis international airport. Which is also radioactive.
1943 Batman was amazing for this
The diversity that Hollywood desperately needs is diversity of thought.
all the studies on diversity the government uses were actual diversity rather than skin colour. They took that info and smashed the circle intro the square hole to make it about wokeness. The studies had plumbers and engineers and other professionals solving problems and that type of thing. There are no studies that are reliable that show diversity based on skin colour and sexual preferences works well or at all.
I know this point is off topic a bit but every term they use is corrupt and misleading.
So many books to read, games to play and just going outside. I thank Hollywood for sacrificing itself to remind me of other things to do to entertain myself.
Amen. I ditched so much and took up loads of things when everything went woke.
I no longer need new movies, games, books or comics!
So many classic television shows I wasn't interested in when I was a kid. Movies I shrugged at, but never watched - until now. VERY good writing! Some GREAT classic films!
You know, OLD Hollywood.
You know everything about Hollywood you need to know when you realize that a retired bloke with a camera and a greenscreen can produce more entertaining content then an entire Hollyweird studio. Love from Germany, keep it up, mate!
Danke.
Good, the rest of the world can finally be free and decenter from the West. China is the new Superpower and Asian cinema is making rounds in Africa@@CallMeChato
With COVID, businesses realized that it wasn't necessary to rent office space, people could work from home. It's been realized, with the writers's strike, that some shows, talk shows, in particular, aren't necessary/truly wanted...quite telling.🤔
Would I even miss Hollywood? No, not after the last 5 years or so.
Even better.. competing alternatives will take their place. Can't happen soon enough.
Foreign media and older films: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
Classic Films my old friend how long has it been 2 hours?
Craig Ferguson was the last late-night show host that was worth watching.
Agree..and he got out before it really went downhill.
The fact that The Office and Friends are consistently some of the most streamed shows should be a source of embarrassment to these people. How many real hits have there been in the age of streaming - anything other than Stranger Things?
Yes, it can no longer compete with its own past.
@@CallMeChatono shit, because intelligent people existed in the past. It's a lot harder when you're not allowed to learn what nuance actually is. I think that's the biggest freaking atrocity of the North American if not straight up Western education systems.
Then again, conspiratorially, that may very well be by design.
@@ImpetuouslyInsane Maybe, but I think it's more like modern teachers are bad at teaching. They got into that profession because no one else would have them. You know, because they suck at everything else. So, when a society has a bunch of failures that want to power trip over people that can't defend themselves, you get the American education system where the goal isn't to educate, but to indoctrinate into debt slaves.
The most pernicious version of bait and switch I've ever seen.
The Mandalorian was doing well until Disney went full woke on the cast and fans.
Cobra Kai for a while
Some points:
1. When allowed, Canadians are perfectly capable of making TV and movie entertainment that is just as good (or bad) as that of any other nation.
2. What is the perfect series for streaming? In my opinion it's _Band of Brothers._ Now, maybe that's not "diverse" enough, but it makes a great _example_ of how to do it _right._ There's no bait-and-switch, naming itself after one character and then never focusing on him or her. There's no saving all the exciting action for the last episode. There's no cliff-hanger ending. It has a through-story, but it's not a soap opera. The first few original _Prime Suspect_ series would have been great for streaming, also.
3. Stop replacing red-haired white women with black women constantly and unnecessarily.
4. Each and every late-night talk show has become an obvious participant in propaganda dissemination for the Democratic Party. All their commentary and editorializing on politics are in such lockstep with Democratic Party talking points that I'm pretty sure they all signed the same contract. There is *_NO_* deviation among *_ANY_* of them and that's highly suspicious to me.
Okay, I'm done prating now.
I’m supporting your statement because I love band of brothers. The names winters, guarnere, malarkey toye and roe should go down in infamy.
@@royhenry-do9hq Should live forever in glory. Infamy is bad, like when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor without first declaring war.
take the red haired complaint up with the tiny-hat tribe that runs your entertainment mediums. Who do you think is making that decision? Literally all them, yet they scream a made up racially charged word about calling em out, sounds like they are children that never grew up from slave times even though they are still modern slaves like all of us.
"4. Each and every late-night talk show has become an obvious participant in propaganda dissemination for the Democratic Party. All their commentary and editorializing on politics are in such lockstep with Democratic Party talking points that I'm pretty sure they all signed the same contract. There is NO deviation among ANY of them and that's highly suspicious to me."
I mean, Wikileaks and the JournoList (J-List) leaks directly confirmed that the DNC leadership and Democrat politicians' campaign teams email the staff of talk shows and journalists to coordinate on what talking points to put out each day. It's not even theoretical.
Breaking Bad is the best show for streaming (if you can take the content). Littleton no time between episodes and just great writing and acting.
Nice you mentioned Das Boot, that is one of the best films ever made, with a great musical score as well!
My conspiracy theory: All the executives saw these strikes as the perfect way to purge the industry of the people costing them money.
Simply wait them out. Do not negotiate until they all have to quit. And once nobody's left, hire back the ones that make you money. That way you avoid all of the lawsuits and screaming and people on TV claiming you're firing them because of (insert political reason here); they are just not hired back.
They already did that. You got reality TV that way. Think it can't get any dumber? Good luck.
It's an interesting theory, but the CEOs are a big part of the activist problem. They may be cutting some troublemakers, but the rot is still there and spreading.
Hope that you're right
I'd laugh if that was the plan, 🍿 anyone?
"Here is what we'll do. Here is what we'll pay. Take it, or GTFO."
The best thing to come out of Hollywood in a long long time... The writers and actors strike... Stay on strike forever... You can't top that one...
I hope this strike never ends they honestly deserve this after all the shit they’ve been talking
Over here in the U.K. TV channel Legend has just started a repeat run of The Six Million Dollar Man. It's far superia to anything produced recently.
Cool! thanks for the heads up.
@@inspector2363 It started last Wednesday, I think.
It's a Holly-caust! Good riddance. "Nothing of value was lost in the fire", as the old saying goes. Seriously, if "Barbenheimer" is the best we can do, it's time to close up shop.
Happy to watch your channel from time to time. Used to work as a senior engineer in one of the biggest companies in the US, but got tired of the way DEI was used to skip unqualified candidates into critical positions. Was a story my friends in the automotive industry had already been pointing out much earlier, an industry that used to indicate the US economy quite well... until it did not.
Basically, the union destroyed the industry...
So I'd say it's still indicating the US economy.
@@Nyet-Zdyes Was a senior engineer at Intel. They just were given a bunch of contracts from the chips act. Big mistake - a corp will abide by the letter of the contract I assume, but this was the company that emptied out innovative VLSI firms in the US and then moved as much as possible overseas.
Intel has a division entierly focused on what to do with all the excess money they made in the 80s & 90s. No surprise Obama visited Jones Farm site in Oregon to discuss how semiconductors would be the new version of the automotive industry indicator. Then intel moved operations to vietnam, mexico, costa rica, china even.
[edit: sorry to ruin the hope for the future, but the DNC are the bad guys. Easy conclusion to anyone that does not have blinders.]
@@sorde21 Oh, I agree that the modern DNC are definitely the bad guys.
I also expect the to "game the system" to their personal benefit... nothing new there.
The bigger the government gets, the more opportunities to game the system.
As for ruining any hope that I might have for the future... rest assured... that hope has LONG been gone.
I'm cynical because I am also realistic.
The thing that put Johnny Carson ahead of the competition was two things: the couch, and the hog-calling competition. A good chunk of the memorable moments from the Carson show were the guests interaction with each other, and they weren't all Hollywood elites.
When I heard about the crazy Oscar checklist, I found myself wondering-if I were a filmmaker-- if I'd just shrug off the idea of winning an Oscar and focus on making a good and profitable movie instead. Oscar awards shows have rating sinking faster than the Titanic. Even an Oscar nomination doesn't mean diddly in my book anymore.
As a non-involved Trump supporter (no donations, no votes), I can appreciate the ability to loathe the man but not go nuts about hating him or his supporters. More importantly, thanks for the great entertainment! Too bad we don't have many of the real movie stars left, those who understand the fundamental nature of their business. Ego seems to have superseded talent, and we are poorer for it.
I don't believe that modern Hollywood understands one very important fact. Entertainment, is a luxury, not a necessity. Also there is the matter of relateability. I, a disabled veteran, living on $1,300 a month is suppose to feel bad for some crappy writer making more in a week than I do in a year!! The hell with the writers and the actors. Let them strike, and let them have to skip a few meals to have enough money for gas to go to a medical appointment.
I hear you. I’m disabled and get by on less than $1100 a month.
Hello! Thank you!
"I struggle so everyone else should!" has always been a bullshit argument. Them having better contracts does not take money away from your pension. Not that I am particularly empathetic towards them, but it doesn't concern me, so it shouldn't bother me.,
Yes, they make that in a week, but then they're jobless for 3 or more months. This strike isn't about the people at the top. 80% don't meet the standard to get health coverage thru the union.
Plus they make low quality content. Given that there is 100 years of entertainment in the can it’s not a big deal if more garbage isn’t created
Hollywood has told me [and so many millions of other people] that it loathes me. It tells me that I've been wrong, and that I am wrong for believing what I believe. It tells me that I'm wrong for not giving them my money for having them yell at me that I'm in the wrong. Hollywood has told me that I should not exist, except as their ally, willing to scrape and bow before them and say 'Thank you. May I have another?' when they kick me in the groin.
Hollywood can burn to hell for all I care.
If late-night talk shows are not being broadcasted, then I say let the strike last forever. A day without Late Nith Talks Shows is like a breath of clean fresh air.
Some of the boozy Carson shows you spoke of were unscripted mayhem.
When professional ring master Johnny loses control of his guests, you know it’s gone off the rails.
Great stuff to look back on.
This man's a treasure.
You are very kind.
His insider knowledge is priceless for retrospectives.
Well said! This is currently my favorite Chato video.
Disney has already cancelled itself. As Disney goes, so goes Hollywood.
This is what happens when you let Darla take control of the "He-Man Women Haters Club".
You dated yourself, my man! LOL!
The high rollers in Hellywood could use a lot more Boot To The Head!
"And what have we learned from this lesson, students?"
"The Shotgun in Hollywood's Mouth" 🤣🤣
When you realize Oppenheimer cannot be nominated for best picture you realize the Oscars are obsolete...
Your comment didn’t age well.
That good old boys club of the old Tonight show that you described could be that way because each of those names you rattled off were extremely entertaining.
"And no effs were given that day"
The death of Hollywood is a suicide, The Writers can stay on strike for all I care. We have 100 years of superior movies and television to fall back on, not to mention every other form of entertainment and art!
Don't forget foreign media.
@@Lonovavir That's implied, I'm not one of those folks who doesn't like to read subtitles. Even the foreign film fare has gone downhill a bit let's be honest...
I guess someone forgot who actually pays the bills. Us, the audience, who have our own opinions.
Funny how a Craig Ferguson show from 12 years ago is infinitely more watchable than any late-night show from last year.
God, I miss him.
Graig Ferguson was the best.
The Oscars have been dead for a few years now.
I remember when everyone watched, now I know no one that does.
Well, when the Dune 2022 came out the complaint was that it had to many white actors. Imagine if the 1980 version came out in 2024.
Imagine a movie being true to the book.
No one complains about an all black cast or all Asian cast so what’s wrong with an all white cast?
@@TheMasterQuests Nothing is wrong with an all white but there are those who do have a problem with it
@@OldMan_PJ Amen to that. Dune 1980 was not true because the director could not see people doing Martial Arts on the sand. The Sci-fi two part series was closer to the Book and the 2023 was also. It a much better version of the 1980. The 1980 version is a good classic version.
@@charlesratcliff2016 Sanford and Son has an almost all black cast, maybe one white. But it was one of the funniest comedies. Married With Children was mostly white and the black members were as funny as Al. It's not color, it's talent. Of course, I loved the fat women who tried to buy shoes from Al.
My feelings on Hollywood and activism can best be summed up, ironically, by Marvel: "if you won't let us go then please just let us die"!
-Wandavision
"Just say no." - 80's anti-drug commercials
If you have to sum something up with marvel I’d rather not see it lmao
@@Psx806 then don't read it...freedom of speech doesn't just apply to people who agree with you
@@Nyet-Zdyes freedom of speech for thee but not for me, huh?
learn to take a joke@@s3.14dervision
“Woke cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.” - J.R.R. Tolkien (revised for 2023)
That is the intention.
The original wording was more accurate.
@@M167A1 Evil. Woke. Synonymous in my view.
I had to revise it for a "modern audience"
Prof. Chato, the first action I do when I see your vids is hit LIKE, then I watch and I'm never disappointed.
That is what is called pressure. But thanks.
I remember when I was a lot younger listening to Bill Hicks lambast Talk Shows and Hollywood culture, due to how devoid they were of any artist integrity. His Arizona Bay jokes were fantastic, and true.
And it has only got worse. He was ahead of his time.
You sir are brilliant! I laughed out loud more times in this video than all your others combined (save for Mister Canoehead of course). The machine that goes "bing" - I'm still laughing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
The machine that goes ping! is a Monty Python joke, by the way.
The Witcher books are literally monster of the week short stories, if they followed the book the story would introduce you to the world and naturally lead to Ciri's story and it would have been insanely good.
We like the new platforms -that the audience/fans can directly interact with the hosts of the shows.
I’d take Chato, Nerdrotic, EVS, Critical Drinker, Salty Cracker, ThatUmbrellaGuy, and Doomcock ANY day, over any “late night comedy” shows today. Unless we can reanimate Johnny Carson!🙏🤞😎
Same here, there is plenty of entertainment.. I listen to all kinds of podcasts, also.
Yes, I find You Tube far more entertaining then TV, in fact besides the channels mentioned I can spend a whole evening watching something as mundane as a person with a go pro on their helmet skiing down different runs.
A.i. Johnny Carson needs to take over late night on TH-cam.
Thanks once again Chato.
As the proud owner of 4K+ Blu-rays of Films, Shows, Docs, Anime, Opera/Musicals and a host of other wonderful entertainment I can honestly say, that were Hollyweird in this current era to plummet into the depths of the PACIFIC, via the next "big one", only the loss of life would provoke a tear from me (I don't wish death on anyone, ever).
The entertainment map has shifted, significantly. Movies in Cinemas, TV shows each scheduled week. These are for the most part items of a bygone era that is actually, only paid attention to by the very same demographic they are trying to chase away, in order to attract their...heh, heh, heh, NEW audience.
Yeah well, I'm gone, my family is gone and a multitude of my friends are gone. Good luck with that. :)
Oh, and Sky TV here in the UK has not renewed their exclusive contract with The Oscars to stream the award show over their ratings failure. Oh, how that tickled me.
I watched a bit of Young Sheldon with my Mom. I am not a fan of the show or the Big Bang Theory. But I can sit and watch an episode or two and am mildly entertained. The formulaic sitcom is a lost gem. You just put them on and enjoy. There is no heaviness, just light hearted, simple enjoyment. There has always been message driven entertainment, but it was found in indie productions. Mostly because the market for it smaller. But general entertainment says nothing and that is the point.
I watch youtube, first it was a little, now it is basically all I watch.
If old Hollywood had a problem, it was lack of accountability. But since people really don't want to be accountable, accountability becomes like a wet bar of soap, it keeps trying to slip out of your grasp. So if you push for accountability AND inclusivity, obviously Hollywood will try to push inclusivity as the primary concern.
i would say their main problem is they are run by marxists, and supported by their useful idiots...
Being able to watch the entertainment industry commit suicide in real time is the most entertainment this industry has given me in decades.
I've never much cared for the hollywood types, but it must be terrible to have spent decades working for an industry only to watch it get mismanaged into oblivion.
Propmaker been working since 95. Have felt like I’ve been trapped on a bus driven by crazy people heading for a cliff for a while now. I just want to make cool stuff.
I follow music more than movies. One of the major artists that I care about made this observation: It used to be that it was a huge win if a music artist got on a late-night show like Johnny Carson or David Letterman. Right now if a music artist gets on any of the late night shows, it makes *absolutely* no difference to their sales, radio play, or even plays on Spotify. None. Whoever it is that watches late-night shows these days, apparently they have no interest in new music.
What if the writers had a strike and nobody noticed?
It's hard for me to have sympathy for people on strike when they are in a completely non-essential profession.
I wouldn't go that far. I'd say the profession is necessary, but many of those striking haven't been doing very good work in it. When you get a good group together in the decision making process, you get great content. When you get people who just want to tick boxes and brag to the public about how woke they are, then blame the fans for not liking what they made, you get shows like Rings of Power.
@@evanflynn4680 Read about the Luddites in early 19th Century Britain, and see the comparison with the introduction of tech into a once manual trade, i.e. then cropping machines, and today AI into the script writing process. aka history repeating itself.
Also a 'profession' that is SUPPOSED to depend on TALENT! It's not like we're talking about factory workers who could be easily replaced by nearly ANY SCAB off the street who's willing to work for 50 cents less an hour...
If a WRITER is 'successful' then wouldn't they always be IN DEMAND?
I have no sympathy for the Leftists in Hollyweird. But I'm sure there are a vast number of people working in showbiz that don't agree with the message, But just keep their mouths shut and do what they're told out of self preservation. Also, a lot of people DON'T make tons of money. It's the stars that get all the attention and they ARE rich. Plus the whole AI issue. Everyone should fear AI. Not because they are going to turn into deadly robots. But because they are going to make most people irrelevant.
Workers are essential to every industry. While I have no sympathy for the executives, I do sympathize with people who are working in a dying industry. I work in a dying industry myself. I am still rooting for their failure though. Hollywood deserves to fail as bad as Bud light did.
You can tell from all the references, about how well versed in the history of movies and tv, Chato is.
One of the root issues is, the main script writing software, Final Draft, has had a feature for a while now that allows you to give your characters the various check box requirements and then it performs metrics on your script to essentially give it a DEI score. Basically, your script can be DOA when you send it in because of a low or non existent set of social metrics.
wait, is that really a feature? 😐
Which is why I use Fade In.
Bridges have been burned, not sure if Hollywood could reconstitute itself even if it wanted to.
The most popular late night talk show even before the strike is "Gutfeld!". It's still on, sometimes hilarious, sometimes not, with great co-hosts (love me some Kat Timpf). The humor is 100% anti-woke, and sometimes it even offends me, but overall it's pretty funny and informative.
'In the grim darkness of the far future there is only wokeness.'
Some people: "We're going to the theater to see Barbie!"
Other people: "We're going to the theater to see Oppenheimer."
Me: "I'm sitting at home in my underwear in the dark watching Death Wish 3 on VHS."
Does anyone else remember the days when Hollywood just entertained us and didn't tell us how to think, feel, eat or anything else they have come into their miniscule minds?....ah well perhaps it was all just a fever dream.
There'd often be some message there but it generally needed to make sure we kept watching, so it tended to hide it in characters and story. Unless it was the moral sledgehammer at the end of He-Man.
No, there has always been subtle and not so subtle messaging. Product placements. CIA actively involved in the decision of certain films, this is historical fact. The difference is there was a good enough mix you didn't notice it as much
This is because the young writers BELIEVE that Hollywood is inevitable. It's not. No audience is going to hang around if you insult them. If those slighted people can find, "entertainment," elsewhere....they will go there.
Were the nukes called "Body Positivity Man" and "Little Soy Boy"? 😂
No... they started with the first 3 letters... f... e... m...
and end in "-ists".
If you want, you can stick that word for the place where 2 roads meet, in front of it.
Gr8 rant. TipTop
Don't feel bad about Canada, Chato - you guys had the best talk show on SCTV with Bobby Bittman, Lola Heatherton and Sammy Maudlin!
It reminds me of how the CBC of today is dwarfed by the might CBC of the early 80’s.
Same thing.
Hollywood has turned into "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
As soon as some comedy troupe somewhere realizes this, they'll have what comes after "the Office"
I think Blake Edwards already brought us said satire with "S.O.B."
That was a crazy movie.
Its obvious what normal people want for entertainment, so this is a perfect opportunity for a small independent studio to make some big money
I like series that are one continuing long movie, when it works for that series. It doesn't for everything.
I do get what you're saying about serialization though. I think that for a lot of series, the concept of "let's having overarching plots, but then do episodes of the week" is the sweet spot, in particular if a show is clever enough to swap in and out of those styles as needed. I still think Deep Space 9 is an underlooked gem when it comes to serialization / episodic ratio, it nailed it.
It's a tried-and-true method that WORKS, at least when it's done moderately right.
Another thing that they are forgetting or ignoring... is having characters that people actually like... that they WANT to "invite into their homes" and spend time with.
A 3rd thing... "Hollywood people" are not doing themselves any favors by running their mouths off and insulting people. In doing so, they turn themselves into someone we don't want in our homes... don't want to spend time with.
Buffy and Elementary nailed that format. They had a different big arc per season too, which gave every season it's own sense of identity.
I thought the first five seasons of the X-Files did a good job of that.
I have to say I think there's an oversight in the late night / talk show point, which is that of the lockdowns/mandates etc. When so many of those hosts were pushing ONE thing and in such a domineering and condescending way.
I truly believe it turned a lot of people off - who maybe did just want a bit of goofy talk and were quite happy with the TDS (maybe...), but to be told they were irrelevant in the face of overwhelming celebrity, while at risk of - or actually - losing jobs, family, contacts, livelihoods, communities, friendships and have late night shows (literally) make a song and dance about how great THEY were, I think created an unbridgeable divide for many in relation to those shows and potentially Hollywoke/weird/why as a whole.
The world would be a better place without Hollywood.
Hollywood is done, split their fan base politically, shame & alienate 1 half, the other half (in truth ALL) dont watch tv, go to movies or buy music.
Hollywood and much of the entertainment industry has been controlled propaganda a long time as well. But that's another story
Apparently, one person on their own can be "diverse". It goes against any logic I can think of, but then so does "equality of outcome"
Diversity is one of the words they're trying to redefine, along with others such as:
woman
racism
fascism
violence
gender
accountability
queer
equality
Chato just gets it, this isn't hard and yet it now seems like forbidden knowledge that few can speak.
IMO, life overall was far better under Trump than what's come after. Worst admin. ever.
Hollywood had excess capacity.
They are destroying that excess capacity.
Have to be honest here: death of Hollywood is the best news that could ever be delivered to other centres of filmmaking. For instance, first continuous narrative feature film was made in my country, Australia, which had a very healthy film industry. Hollywood, of course, obliterated it. Wouldn't it be fantastic if commercial filmmaking - in terms of what gets greenly - devolves back across to all regions in the world.
You spoke my mind. There was never a moment from on high when God declared Los Angeles, California, to be hot centre of the cinematic Universe for all time.
@@videowilliams Hallelujah to that. Hollywood dominated thanks to its unbeatable economies of scale in the early 20th C, but today that's called the internet, virtual production, and whatever AI is going to provide in background action and sets.
If the cycle turns as it did in the New Hollywood in the Seventies when story trumped spectacle, I think there's than odds-on chance of a new renaissance.
The death of the multiplex and the rise of the 'event' cinema for film-lovers will be part of this.
This is the most comprehensive, and unfortunately underrated, video on the entire internet. Well done, sir.
Wow, thanks!
A "Mystery Men" style movie called "SJW: The Awakening" would be awesome. The twist would be at the point, at the end of the second act of course, when one of them realizes/wakes up to the fact that they are actually the supervillains who are destroying what they say they are trying to protect. Perhaps this would come while the SWJ character, lets call them _The Shoveller,_ is hitting a special needs child over the head with his shovel. I know it's extremely derivative, but... Well anyway. Great video.
Hollywood needs to reconnect with American audiences. Working and middle class America. Get out of the LA, NYC bubble.
Hollywood is tearing itself apart & we're standing back in silence. Like Sun Tzu said, "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
We're more than happy to watch things which weren't released before our current age of enlightenment.
I think that was Napoleon who said that, but your point remains!
@@quietus13 Yeah, I think it is wrongly attributed to Sun Tzu, but here is a good one from him:
"If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by."
Just enjoying watching Hollywood burn........
My favourite part of Midnight's Edge is when you're funnier and more knowledgeable than Tom. Never stop. This video was pretty good too 🙂
The machine that goes ping is my favourite
We both have our areas of expertise.
Your beneficence knows no bounds@@CallMeChato
And we are all sitting back, with a drink, watching it all happen.
Beautiful.
... and hotdogs, marshmallows, and popcorn.
Hollywood forgot people need to entertain, to be fun, amusing. The theme can't be a subtitute to the story. And entertainment shows were supposed to be fun, not safe or informative. It's like when a teacher want the kids to participate in a game that is fun and educational. Those never were fun,
Ive just had a wonderful idea for a network/streaming series...! Das Love Boat, in which a diverse group of U-.boat sailors sink a new cruise ship/international navy ship full of special guest stars per episode!..'Liebe, exciting and new, Come aboard, they're torpeding you!'
"Das Love Boat, soon will be sinking another voyage, Das Love Boat depth charges they will do their best to avoid. Untergang, their intention and hope for a new sieg-hiel..."
It's fair to say that 'network shows' had become terribly formulaic (and had always wrestled against the strictures of what could be shown on-screen, lest any PTA members whip out their flaming pitchforks), so being able to tell a story at the length it *needed* to be rather than the length it *had* to be, and in fewer episodes (far less filler), and without much in the way of content restrictions, streaming really did shake things up for the better ... ... for a while. Streaming indulged itself on its own methods for too long and became lazy, too often sliding out any old junk written however the hell they wished and damn the baffling consequences (e.g. The Witcher) having forgotten the necessary structure and discipline that the traditionally-written network shows had in spades. There has to be a combination of the two, ultimately. Network TV needs to get over itself already and realise that the human body and the F-bomb aren't the end of civilisation, while Streaming TV needs to inject the rigour of structure, logic, clarity of characterisation, and solid storytelling and dispense with the segregationist, condescending, pandering checkboxing on both sides of the screen to focus on talent and storytelling with true breadth and variety, bringing in fresh new voices of all kinds from *outside* the Los Angeles area code. /rant :)
Canada gave us The Kids in the Hall... thank you Canada.
Conan was the last one worth watching. He's legit funny and good natured.
I also liked Craig Ferguson.
@@michaelnash2138 Craig was unhinged. Conan used to be the same way. Very midnight Dorm Room humored.
ONLY the "BEST" picture MUST be "DIVERSE".......Paging, Dr. Orwell. Paging, Dr. Orwell....
I have a ( serious) question: does it means that "Oppenheimer" and "Napoleon" can't be nominated for Best Film next Year?
I think streaming services could learn a thing or two from the networks that while diminishing, are still making a profit, thanks in part to 22 episode seasons that keep people in the habit of tuning in. It also makes the production cost per episode a lot lower because they can reuse assets and build a crew that becomes a well-oiled machine from working full time on the show.
It's interesting that you mention how conservative-aligned actors, writers, producers, etc, are being forced out of Hollywood. I was in a conversation with a fellow left-leaning Canadian who was a lot more ideologically inclined than I, and who said they were: "Happy so many racists in Hollywood were being shown the door". I pondered for a moment and then asked: "You know, I can't think of a single racist who wasn't right-leaning, can you?" They almost immediately said: "Well, that's just because those on the political right trend in that direction." I replied: "Hmm, but I can't think of one openly right-wing person in Hollywood who hasn't been called racist and cancelled. Surely if it was just a natural trend there would be some good apples among the bunch, right?" I don't know if it got this person thinking, but perhaps some of the other people listening to the conversation began to realize that this was a vindictive political purge disguising itself as a morally righteous crusade to make Hollywood more "inclusive and safe".
At the time, we also didn't have examples of left-leaning celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg commenting on the Holocaust, and their career surviving with no repercussions.
Rory: racism is an overblown issue.
@@johnpglackin345 I moved from WashDC to rural Tennessee and have yet to hear anything even slightly racist here In Republican-for-Sixty Years Eastern Tenn. But in DC, it was a constant thing.
@@rosezingleman5007 that's because Washington DC area is trying to get people agitated.
@@johnpglackin345 The supply of racism cannot keep up with the left's demands for it so they have to make it up constantly.
Its getting very exhausting watching the things I love be taken over or co-opted by people who could give a shit about them and turning them into something unrecognizable. Its like finding out your mother has been a man your whole life, its really fucking disturbing.
It's the classic American, 'Throw out the good with the bad". Honestly, woke culture, in terms of what it has sadly evolved into, feel more like the liberal equivalent of 50's Eisenhower conservatism, except for which side is now blacklisting the people it doesn't like.
Watching TV is a pastime I gave up years ago. It's a waste of time. I do like movies though. I've gone to see two this year in the theaters. That's all that seemed worthy of my time. Cheers!
They look up at me and say "please help". And I look down on them and whisper "No."
watched a fun movie last night about a Racehorse in Wales, the horse got injured and then got better and won. It was set in Wales , they had a sing at the end. It was fun and entertaining and that was it. No stupid middle class girl politics, no Americans, no idiotic American politics, no digital editing sludge. There was some fun motion graphics at the end and that was about it.